Fan-Cheng Meng , Hui Liu , Xiao-Jun Huang , Yu Chang , Dai Ren , Li-Gen Lin , Qing-Qian Zeng , Qing-Wen Zhang
{"title":"Four new norlignan glycoside isomers from the twigs of Cephalotaxus oliveri Mast.","authors":"Fan-Cheng Meng , Hui Liu , Xiao-Jun Huang , Yu Chang , Dai Ren , Li-Gen Lin , Qing-Qian Zeng , Qing-Wen Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Four novel isomers of norlignan </span>glycoside were isolated from </span><span><em>Cephalotaxus</em><em> oliveri</em></span> Mast.. Their structures were elucidated as 3<em>S</em>-4″-<em>O</em>-<em>β</em>-<span>d</span>-glucopyranosylnyasol <strong>1</strong>, 3<em>S</em>-4′-<em>O</em>-<em>β</em>-<span>d</span>-glucopyranosylnyasol <strong>2</strong>, 3<em>S</em>-4″-<em>O</em>-<em>β</em>-<span>d</span>-glucopyranosylhinokiresinol <strong>3</strong>, 3<em>S</em>-4′-<em>O</em>-<em>β</em>-<span>d</span>-glucopyranosylhinokiresinol <strong>4</strong><span> by extensive spectroscopic methods including 1D and 2D NMR experiments (</span><sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup><span>C, DEPT, </span><sup>1</sup>H–<sup>1</sup><span><span>H COSY, HSQC, </span>HMBC<span>, ROESY) along with HR-ESIMS and comparison to literature data. Their absolute configurations were elucidated through CD spectra coupled with the quantum chemical CD calculations.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72897039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna A. Sukhanova, Ilya A. Puchkin, Andrei A. Vasil'ev, Sergei G. Zlotin
{"title":"Synthesis and stereochemical assignment of geraniol- and nerol-derived Cygerol enantiomers","authors":"Anna A. Sukhanova, Ilya A. Puchkin, Andrei A. Vasil'ev, Sergei G. Zlotin","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The enantiomers (up to 99% </span><em>ee</em><span><span>) of both geraniol- and nerol-derived 2-cyclohexyl-5,9-dimethyldeca-4,8-dienoic acid, the active ingredient of the wound healing medication Cygerol, were prepared via a low-temperature alkylation, basic hydrolysis, </span>derivatization with (</span><em>S</em><span><span>)-4-benzyloxazolidin-2-one and chromatographic separation steps. The </span>absolute configuration of stereocenters in the antipodes having an (</span><em>E</em>)- or (<em>Z</em>)-geometry of the internal double bond was determined based on characteristic <sup>1</sup>H NMR signals of the corresponding (<em>S</em><span>)-4-benzyloxazolidin-2-one-derived imides and on conversion to the known diethyl (</span><em>S</em>)-2-cyclohexylsuccinate and (<em>S</em>)-2-cyclohexylbutane-1,4-diol with reported specific rotations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80969770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen G. Davies, Ai M. Fletcher, Abigail R. Hanby, Paul M. Roberts, James E. Thomson
{"title":"Asymmetric syntheses of the N-terminal α-hydroxy-β-amino acid components of microginins 612, 646 and 680","authors":"Stephen G. Davies, Ai M. Fletcher, Abigail R. Hanby, Paul M. Roberts, James E. Thomson","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.09.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.09.022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The asymmetric syntheses of the N-terminal α-hydroxy-β-amino acid components of microginins 612, 646 and 680 are reported. Conjugate addition of lithium (<em>R</em>)-<em>N</em>-benzyl-<em>N</em>-(α-methylbenzyl)amide to the requisite (<em>E</em>)-α,β-unsaturated ester followed by in situ enolate oxidation with (−)-(camphorsulfonyl)oxaziridne (CSO) gave the corresponding <em>anti</em>-α-hydroxy-β-amino esters. Sequential Swern oxidation followed by diastereoselective reduction gave the corresponding <em>syn</em>-α-hydroxy-β-amino esters. Subsequent N-debenzylation (i.e., hydrogenolysis for microginin 612, and NaBrO<sub>3</sub>-mediated oxidative N-debenzylation for microginins 646 and 680) followed by acid catalysed ester hydrolysis gave the corresponding <em>syn</em>-α-hydroxy-β-amino acids, the N-terminal components of microginins 612, 646 and 680, in good yield. An analogous strategy for elaboration of the enantiopure <em>anti</em>-α-hydroxy-β-amino esters facilitated the asymmetric synthesis of the corresponding C(2)-epimeric α-hydroxy-β-amino acids.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.09.022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91631057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Szymon Jarzyński, Greta Utecht, Stanisław Leśniak, Michał Rachwalski
{"title":"Highly enantioselective asymmetric reactions involving zinc ions promoted by chiral aziridine alcohols","authors":"Szymon Jarzyński, Greta Utecht, Stanisław Leśniak, Michał Rachwalski","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>Enantiomerically pure, chiral secondary and tertiary </span>aziridine alcohols (including the aziridine analogue of ProPhenol—AziPhenol) have proven to be highly effective catalysts for enantioselective asymmetric reactions in the presence of </span>zinc ions<span><span><span>, including arylation of </span>aromatic aldehydes<span>, epoxidation<span> of chalcone and addition of </span></span></span>diethylzinc to aldehydes, leading to the desired chiral products in high chemical yields (up to 90%) and with </span></span><span><em>ee</em></span>’s up to 90%. A higher catalytic activity of Prophenol-type bis(aziridine alcohol) in the aforementioned asymmetric transformations has been demonstrated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91631058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbara Kovács, Rita Megyesi, Enikő Forró, Ferenc Fülöp
{"title":"Efficient lipase-catalysed route for the kinetic resolution of salsolidine and its ß-carboline analogue","authors":"Barbara Kovács, Rita Megyesi, Enikő Forró, Ferenc Fülöp","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Racemic 1-methyl-6,7-dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline <strong>1</strong> and 1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-ß-carboline <strong>3</strong><span><span> were resolved through lipase-catalysed asymmetric acylation<span> on the secondary amino group. High </span></span>enantioselectivities (</span><em>E</em> >200) were observed when the acylation of racemic <strong>1</strong><span> was performed with phenyl allyl carbonate in the presence of </span><span><em>Candida rugosa</em></span><span> lipase in toluene at 40 °C or with </span><span><em>Candida antarctica</em></span> lipase B in <em>tert</em>-butyl methyl ether at 50 °C. Excellent enantioselectivity (<em>E</em> >200) characterised the CAL-B-catalysed acylation of racemic <strong>3</strong><span> with phenyl allyl carbonate in the presence of triethylamine in </span><em>tert</em>-butyl methyl ether at 50 °C. The product (<em>R</em>)-carbamates (<em>ee</em> >97%) were hydrolysed into the corresponding (<em>R</em>)-enantiomers of the free amines <strong>1</strong> and <strong>3</strong> (<em>ee</em> = 99%) with the use of Pd<sub>2</sub>(dba)<sub>3</sub>·CHCl<sub>3</sub> catalyst.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86639587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Madhubabu, R. Shankar, T. Krishna, Y. Kumar, Y. Chiranjeevi, C. Muralikrishna, H. Mohan, Satish S. More, M. Rao, R. Akula
{"title":"A convergent approach towards the synthesis of the 2-alkyl-substituted tetrahydroquinoline alkaloid (−)-cuspareine","authors":"M. Madhubabu, R. Shankar, T. Krishna, Y. Kumar, Y. Chiranjeevi, C. Muralikrishna, H. Mohan, Satish S. More, M. Rao, R. Akula","doi":"10.1016/J.TETASY.2017.10.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TETASY.2017.10.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84426438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Davies, Ai M. Fletcher, Abigail R. Hanby, P. M. Roberts, J. Thomson
{"title":"Asymmetric syntheses of the N-terminal α-hydroxy-β-amino acid components of microginins 612, 646 and 680","authors":"S. Davies, Ai M. Fletcher, Abigail R. Hanby, P. M. Roberts, J. Thomson","doi":"10.1016/J.TETASY.2017.09.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TETASY.2017.09.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75549851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Szymon Jarzyński, Stanisław Leśniak, Michał Rachwalski
{"title":"Synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2-(N-aryl, N-alkyl-aminomethyl)aziridines: a new class of ligands for highly enantioselective asymmetric synthesis","authors":"Szymon Jarzyński, Stanisław Leśniak, Michał Rachwalski","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>A simple and effective synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2-(</span><em>N</em>-aryl-, <em>N</em>-alkyl-aminomethyl)aziridines from (2<em>S</em>)-<em>N</em><span>-tritylaziridine-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester has been developed. Treating of this key ester with several primary and secondary amines in the presence of AlMe</span><sub>3</sub> provided the corresponding chiral <em>N</em><span>-trityl-2-carboxamides, and their reduction performed with different reagents resulted in the formation of the expected 2-(aminomethyl)aziridines. The choice of reaction conditions allows to either keep or leave the trityl substituent in the product. Such 2-(aminoalkyl)aziridines have shown very high catalytic efficiency in the asymmetric arylation of aldehydes and in other testing asymmetric reactions. On the other hand, homochiral </span><em>N</em>-trityl-2-carboxamides are interesting building blocks for the synthesis of various biologically active compounds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80242441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paweł Borowiecki , Iwona Justyniak , Zbigniew Ochal
{"title":"Lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution approach toward enantiomerically enriched 1-(β-hydroxypropyl)indoles","authors":"Paweł Borowiecki , Iwona Justyniak , Zbigniew Ochal","doi":"10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In a route towards enantiomerically enriched 1-(β-hydroxypropyl)indoles, which are potentially useful building blocks for high value-added chemicals synthesis, a kinetic resolution approach by means of lipase-catalyzed enantioselective acylation as well as hydrolysis/methanolysis has been elaborated for the first time. The enzymatic resolution of chiral </span><em>N</em>-substituted indole-based <em>sec</em><span><span><span>-alcohols was successfully accomplished, yielding both enantiomeric forms of the employed derivatives with up to >99% enantiomeric purity via an enantioselective </span>transesterification<span> under mild reaction conditions. The most selective resolutions were obtained using fungal (CAL-B and TLL) and bacterial (PFL and BCL) lipases and vinyl acetate as the acyl group donor. The synthetic protocol described herein is very simple, user-friendly and efficient, thus paving the way for future access towards more complex compounds of this type. The </span></span>absolute configurations<span> of novel enantiomeric derivatives, and thus stereoselectivity<span> of the described enzymatic reactions were confirmed by application of CDA-based NMR methodology and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.</span></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":22237,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron, asymmetry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.10.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91631160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}